Re: More on garbage [was Re: Public disclosure ...]

Jon A. Solworth wrote:
[snip]
>
> I think I understand what each of you are saying, but my understanding
> is that availability (lack of denial of service) is *always* a security
> issue. If not, I could replace the computer system with nothing and
> say that it is secure. It does not respond to requests so that there
> is no confidentiality issue. There is no way to update the information
> and hence no integrity issue.

There is a name for a successful denial of service attack = sabotage.

The programmers and operators may be able to repair it quickly but it is
still sabotage.

Andrew Swallow
Received on Thu Sep 29 21:43:00 2005